Author(s): Dr. P Kulothungan

Abstract:
The purpose of the present study was to find the effect of aerobic cross training and aerobic training on cardiovascular endurance. For this purpose of the study thirty subjects studying various course of bachelor degree at Vivekananda Arts and Science College, Villupuram, Tamil Nadu, India were selected at random as subjects in the age group of 19 – 24 years. They were divided into three equal groups, each group consisted of ten subjects, in which group – I underwent aerobic cross training, group – II underwent aerobic training and group – III acted as control group who did not participate in any special training. The training period for this study was three days in a week for twelve weeks. Prior to and after the training period the subjects were tested for cardiovascular endurance. The analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to find out the significant difference if any, among the experimental groups and control group on selected criterion variable. In all the cases, 05 level of confidence was fixed to test the significance, which was considered as an appropriate. Since there was three groups were involved in this study, the Scheffe’s test was used as post-hoc test. It was concluded that both training groups have increased the level of cardiovascular endurance significantly. However the increase was higher for aerobic training group than aerobc cross training groups.

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